Sun.Jan 08, 2017

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UNLIMITED VACATION: 6 Things to Consider

HR Bartender

I continue to hear more conversation about unlimited vacation time. It makes me wonder if having a defined vacation benefit is an old-school concept. Unlimited vacation (or unlimited PTO) isn’t a license to not get the work done. Whether the company has a formal vacation benefit or not, the work still must get done. The concept of unlimited vacation is focused on trust, transparency, and employee engagement.

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Leave Your Ineffective Job Descriptions Behind in 2017

ClearCompany HRM

Hiring and recruiting are rarely easy tasks. A recent study shows that 95% of recruiters believe recruiting will continue to get more competitive in the coming years. That’s why it’s so important that job descriptions—one of the most basic tools in a recruiter’s toolbox—evolve along with the changing climate. That includes not only what you put in your job descriptions, but also the format and the approach to reaching your audience.

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How to identify & Retain High Potential Employees (HiPo)?

EmployeeConnect

Research shows that high potential employees, or Hi Po, numbers among a company’s greatest resources. Nurturing leaders in-house eliminates the need to recruit externally to fill many key positions while lowering training costs and reducing turnover rates for recent recruits who don’t match the company’s culture or standards. That’s why it’s so vital to identify, nurture and retain workers with high employee potential.

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The Employee Burnout Crisis: Study Reveals Big Workplace Challenge in 2017

Empower Software

The biggest threat to building an engaged workforce in 2017 is employee burnout. The newest study in the Employee Engagement Series conducted by Kronos Incorporated and Future Workplace® found 95 percent of human resource leaders admit employee burnout is sabotaging workforce retention, yet there is no obvious solution on the horizon.

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Automate Your Onboarding Process In 7 Steps

Efficient employee onboarding is more than a warm welcome—it's a catalyst for business growth. Automated onboarding transforms new hires into productive team members faster, fostering long-term satisfaction and talent retention. For HR, automation means replacing inefficient manual processes with streamlined, cost-effective operations. Our eBook reveals how automating employee onboarding delivers these benefits, reducing HR challenges and elevating new employee readiness.

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Growing Talent Development Firms: Pathways to Growth

ATD Human Capital

As I was recently reviewing nearly two plus years of these blog articles, it dawned on me that while the title of the series is “growing talent development firms,” I’ve neglected to focus any one article on just how one goes about growing a talent development firm. Instead, I’ve offered tools, tips, and techniques, but never really specifically outlined a formula for growth.

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Outsourcing series: How does time impact your workforce solution?

Allegis Global Solutions

How outsourcing your recruitment could help you to better measure the timeliness of your workforce solution.

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Performance Management Reboot Part 2: How To Effectively Measure And Monitor Employee Goals

Quantum Workplace

When things are going well at work, why mess with them, right? It’s easy to look at your employees, see tasks are getting done, and move on with your day.

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should I tutor my boss’s son, avoiding insincerity in a resignation letter, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Should I tutor my boss’s son? It’s become known at my full-time place of employment that I have a second part-time job helping high school students prepare for the ACT exams though a tutoring service company. Recently, my boss at my full-time job asked me if I’d be willing to independently tutor his 17-year-old son in a high school make-up class that the boy has already failed.

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Get in Shape !!

Everyday People

A New Year is upon us and everyone is supposed to be making resolutions. They’re evidently our feeble attempt to alter something that we want to see improve in our life. It’s odd that we wait until the 1st of January every year to get the urge and drive to change because the efforts that are taken to make resolutions are too often futile.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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How to Help your Employees Prevent Burnout

HR C-Suite

Christmas, New Year’s, winter holidays and time off work… With all the excitement of the season, many people still feel overwhelmed and stressed, frantically trying to finish their tasks before we all move into 2017. What’s the primary cause of this stress? The answer is burnout, a state of mental exhaustion, stress, and fatigue experienced […].

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Office Design Evolution: Creating a Space That Promotes Productivity

ADP

Office design evolution can help us understand how to design spaces to maximize productivity and encourage innovation.

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6 Ways to Ruin a Relationship Using Social Media

Thrive Global

Perspective on the downsides of social media…. Image Courtesy of Unsplash Social media is fascinating with its ability to spark different emotions, especially when it comes to relationships. Whether it’s a friendship, business, dating, marital bond, etc. there are people on social media that are often times offended in some way by others. Many people scour the internet for information to share lead to emotions including anger or discontent.

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How to Successfully Design Your Total Rewards Statement or Website 

HRsoft

One of the most important aspects of communicating Total Rewards (TR) to your employees is designing a website or employee benefits statement that’s easy to access, use, and understand. Here, we’ll show you how you can create total rewards statements and/or a website that employees can use as a valuable resource to understand the “big picture” of how you’re rewarding them for their contributions.

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The Essential Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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Dwell in Possibility

QAspire

“ Dwell in possibility ”, borrowed from Emily Dickinson is one theme that is guided me so far and will continue to guide me in the future. Every single day brings along a world of possibilities and one thing that determines what we see and how we see things is out own attitude. If you look for problems and constraints, you will always find them – even in the best of situations.

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Music at Work Increases Employee Productivity [Infographic]

TinyPulse